LATEST EUROPEAN COPYRIGHT CASES


The July issue of Sweet & Maxwell's bimonthly European Copyright and Design Reports has now been published. It contains, among other cases, English translations of the following:

* Vereniging Buma an Stichting Stemra v KaZaA (Netherlands Supreme Court):  supplier of peer-to-peer software for exchange of software held not liable for copyright infringements carried out by users of that software; appeal dismissed.

* Public Prosecutor v Jon Lech Johansen (Bogarting Appellate Court, Norway): the prosecutor's appeal against the dismissal of criminal charges against a celebrated DVD security system decoder dismissed.

* Tachon Diffusion SA v Marshoes (Cour de Cassation, France): whether a contract for the sale of a consignment of shoes is invalid on the ground that the shoes' lacing infringes design right;

* Sami v Hotell Du Nord (Supreme Court, Sweden): reasonable remuneration and restraint of trade in respect of the levying of retransmission rights;

* SISRO v Ampersand Software (Cour de Cassation, France): exclusive jurisdiction where copyright infringement proceedings are commenced in France in respect of infringing acts done outside France.

If you know of any interesting or important copyright case that you'd like to see reported in the ECDR, please mail us.
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